The NBA will open its preseason slate on December 11, with the Lakers and Clippers headlining the preseason's opening night.

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ANALYSIS: In an earlier statement, the NBA said: 

The NBA today released its game schedule for the 2020 preseason, which will tip off on Friday, Dec. 11 and conclude on Saturday, Dec. 19.

Each NBA team will play a minimum of two and a maximum of four games as part of the league’s 49-game preseason schedule.  Every team will play at least one home game and one road game in the preseason.  The national television schedule for preseason games will be announced at a later date. 

The 2020-21 regular season will tip off on Tuesday, Dec. 22 and feature 72 games for each team.  As previously announced, the regular-season schedule will be released in two segments.  The schedule for the First Half of the season (Dec. 22, 2020 – March 4, 2021) will be released in the coming days.

The schedule for the Second Half of the season (March 11 – May 16, 2021) will be released during the latter part of the First Half portion of the schedule.  The Second Half schedule will include the remainder of each team’s 72 games not scheduled in the First Half as well as any games postponed during the First Half that can reasonably be added to the Second Half schedule.